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Disaster Recovery and VMware vSphere 4.0 Fault Tolerance

Title: Disaster Recovery and VMware vSphere 4.0 Fault Tolerance
Author(s): Xtravirt (Peter Grant)
Target Audience: Technical - Intermediate
Current Revision: 1.0 April 2009
First Published: 21 April 2009
Products: VMware vSphere, ESX 4.0
UID: XD10007

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Information
Title: 
Disaster Recovery and VMware vSphere 4.0 Fault Tolerance
Author(s): 
Xtravirt (Peter Grant)
Target Audience: 
Technical - Intermediate
First Published: 
21 April 2009
Products: 
VMware vSphere, ESX 4.0
UID: 
XD10007

This Xtravirt white paper introduces VMware’s new Fault Tolerance (FT) feature, and explores some of the finer details, including configuration and troubleshooting.

Zero downtime and data loss - a business need or a 'nice-to-have'?

Overview

vSphere provides a new business continuity feature called Fault Tolerance. This provides zero downtime and zero data loss availability for VM’s. This can be a great option for customers who cannot tolerate any downtime on business critical services.

This Xtravirt white paper introduces VMware’s new Fault Tolerance (FT) feature, and explores some of the finer details, including configuration and troubleshooting.

Key Concepts:

  • Overview of the Fault Tolerance feature in vSphere
  • How the Fault Tolerance feature works
  • Configuring Fault Tolerance
  • Considerations due to limitations of Fault Tolerance
  • Known Issues

 

References
Links: 

1. VMware vSphere 4 Release Candidate Release Notes
2. VS4 40 Availability RC Guide

Search ID: 
XS10001
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Clustering
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